Ricci Luyties
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| Full name | Ricci Judson Luyties | ||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | American | ||||||||||||||||||
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May 14, 1962 Pacific Palisades, California, U.S. |
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| Height | 6 ft 5 in (196 cm) | ||||||||||||||||||
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Ricci Judson Luyties (born May 14, 1962 in Pacific Palisades, California) is a former American volleyball player. He played on the UCLA men's volleyball team and was also a member of the United States men's national volleyball team who received a gold medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. Luyties later became a successful professional beach volleyball player and won 7 domestic titles. He is now the head women's volleyball coach at the University of California, San Diego.
Luyties attended Palisades High School from 1976 through 1980. He was the Los Angeles’ Player of the Year. Luyties led his team to the city finals in 1979 and 1980, placing second to Westchester High School.
The summer of 1980 Luyties joined the Junior National volleyball team and continued to play on it each summer until he joined the United States men's national volleyball team in 1985.
Luyties started for the UCLA Bruins from 1981 through 1984. He helped lead UCLA Bruins to four consecutive national titles and three straight league titles. In 1982 and 1984 the Bruins had an undefeated season with the assistance of Luyties. Throughout his career UCLA won eighty-three straight home games and had an overall record of 126 matches won and 7 lost.
In 1983 and 1894 he was awarded All-American honors, was named the Volleyball Magazine’s Player of the Year, and the NCAA Tournament’s Most Outstanding Player. Luyties also received all-conference honors in 1982 through 1984. He was the first men's player to earn back-to-back Player of the Year honors in NCAA history. Luyties was inducted into the UCLA Hall of Fame in 1995 and in 1996 his jersey (11) was retired at Pauley Pavilion.
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